Kalimba songbooks
Newel Labs publishes the free kalimba tabs on this site and two songbooks made from them, for a 17-key kalimba in C. The books have the same tabs, note for note, and also mark how long each note lasts.
Kalimba Christmas Songbook
31 songs: the 30 Christmas and holiday songs on this site and Greensleeves (What Child Is This).
- Printable PDF: A4 and US Letter, 39 pages, in our own Etsy shop. Kalimba Christmas Songbook on Etsy
- Paperback: 8.5 x 11 in, 40 pages. Coming soon on Amazon.
The 31 songs
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Auld Lang Syne
- Away in a Manger
- Carol of the Bells (Shchedryk)
- Deck the Halls
- Ding Dong Merrily on High
- The First Noel
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Good Christian Men, Rejoice (In dulci jubilo)
- Good King Wenceslas
- Greensleeves (What Child Is This)
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Here We Come A-wassailing
- The Holly and the Ivy
- I Saw Three Ships
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- Jingle Bells
- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
- Joy to the World
- O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)
- O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
- O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël)
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Once in Royal David’s City
- Silent Night
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Up on the Housetop
- We Three Kings
The Complete Kalimba Songbook
98 songs: every song on this site except Alle meine Entchen (All My Little Ducklings). It includes all 31 songs of the Kalimba Christmas Songbook.
- Printable PDF: A4 and US Letter, 114 pages, in our own Etsy shop. The Complete Kalimba Songbook on Etsy
- Paperback: 8.5 x 11 in, 116 pages. Coming soon on Amazon.
The 98 songs
Christmas and holiday songs (30)
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Auld Lang Syne
- Away in a Manger
- Carol of the Bells (Shchedryk)
- Deck the Halls
- Ding Dong Merrily on High
- The First Noel
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Good Christian Men, Rejoice (In dulci jubilo)
- Good King Wenceslas
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Here We Come A-wassailing
- The Holly and the Ivy
- I Saw Three Ships
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- Jingle Bells
- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
- Joy to the World
- O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)
- O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
- O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël)
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Once in Royal David’s City
- Silent Night
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Up on the Housetop
- We Three Kings
Easy first songs (14)
- Hot Cross Buns
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Old MacDonald Had a Farm
- London Bridge Is Falling Down
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- The Alphabet Song (ABC)
- Au Clair de la Lune
- Frère Jacques
- Happy Birthday
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
- Rock-a-bye Baby
Folk and traditional songs (18)
- America the Beautiful
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)
- Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)
- Drunken Sailor
- Greensleeves (What Child Is This)
- Korobeiniki (Russian folk song)
- La Cucaracha
- Loch Lomond
- My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
- Oh My Darling, Clementine
- Oh! Susanna
- Red River Valley
- Sakura Sakura
- Shenandoah
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- Waltzing Matilda
- Yankee Doodle
Hymns and spirituals (12)
- Abide with Me
- Amazing Grace
- Be Thou My Vision
- Blessed Assurance
- Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
- Holy, Holy, Holy
- It Is Well with My Soul
- Jesus Loves Me
- Nearer, My God, to Thee
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- When the Saints Go Marching In
Classical themes (24)
- Ave Maria (Schubert)
- Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 (opening)
- The Blue Danube (Strauss)
- Brahms’ Lullaby (Wiegenlied)
- Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride, Wagner)
- Clair de Lune (Debussy)
- Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
- The Entertainer (Joplin)
- Für Elise (Beethoven)
- Gymnopédie No. 1 (Satie)
- In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg)
- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
- Minuet in G (Petzold)
- Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)
- Morning Mood (Grieg)
- Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 (first theme)
- New World Symphony Largo (Dvořák)
- Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
- Pachelbel’s Canon
- Spring (Vivaldi, The Four Seasons)
- Swan Lake Theme (Tchaikovsky)
- Turkish March (Rondo alla Turca, Mozart)
- Westminster Chimes
- Winter, Largo (Vivaldi, The Four Seasons)
In both books
- Each song on a page of its own, in number tabs with octave dots and the letter name under every note, and every note’s length marked.
- Two pages on how to read the tabs, the contents, and an index by difficulty in five levels.
- For every song: who made it, when, and the score its tab follows.
- On each song page, a QR code and the short address of its free tab page here, where you can hear it and play along.
How they are made
The tabs, texts, drawings and layout of the books were made with AI (Claude, by Anthropic). Code checked every tab in them, note for note, against the song master that the free tab pages on this site are made from.
Every tab in the books is also free on this site, without the note lengths.